Former Bosnian Croat military leader Slobodan Praljak was Wednesday being treated by medics after apparently swallowing poison during his judgement at the UN war crimes court to protest the upholding of a 20-year jail term.

A guard for the court appealed for calm, and confirmed to journalists that Praljak was alive. "He is receiving all necessary medical attention," he added, after AFP journalists saw medics carrying equipment rushing into the tribunal in The Hague.

source: AFP